Digital Resilience

About our service

The 'Digital Resilience' package is a suite of resources for staff and students in Waltham Forest. It is designed to safeguard young people from potentially harmful information or views presented on the Internet and through social networking sites such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

This package is funded entirely by the Local Authority and is therefore FREE for all schools to utilise as part of their Safeguarding measures.

For further information on the London Borough of Waltham Forest's wider provision for Prevent-related work, please explore the dedicated section on the Waltham Forest Council website.

Benefits of using our service

This package is a response to two particular needs of our secondary school pupils. Firstly, to the need, identified through consultation with senior leaders and staff, to support young people to become more careful and discerning users of the Internet and social networking sites. In short, if a young person lacks the tools to make sense of their increasingly digital world it has a direct impact on their vulnerability to potentially harmful information and agendas.

Secondly, this package is a response to the Department for Education's (DfE's) 'Prevent' duty which states that we must "safeguard children and young people in England from extremists and extremist views in school and in out of school hours learning". This ties with the Ofsted Framework which evaluates 'the school's response to any extremist behaviour shown by pupils' and 'the extent to which pupils are able to understand and respond to risk'.

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